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media debate • books • movies

"Joan of Arc Monument" © Paul VanDerWerf; Creative Commons license (CC By 2.0)
It All Comes Back to Joan Didion

Memorial Essay by Martha Nichols

I miss her already, that’s the thing. I’ve been expecting to miss her for a long time.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"Nun Deep in Prayer" © Robert Frank Gabriel; Creative Commons license
The Holy Terror

Memoir Excerpt by Jeremiah Horrigan

My hands passed right through the lump of snow. My superpowers were already kicking in.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

A Shy Writer Learns to Market Herself

Essay by Kelcey Parker

I am a shy person. I have struggled my whole life to put myself out there.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Black Sky" © Carl Bowlby; used by permission
Are Thoughts Things?

Theme Essay by Cynthia Rosi

Because our religion always marked us as oddities—the people who didn’t believe in doctors—my mother cringed at anything she thought was not socially normal.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Jane Hicks (detail; photo credit: Lisa Parker)
Jane Hicks: “I’m a Teacher at Heart”

TW Interview by Denton Loving

I want to inform students that history didn’t happen in a vacuum and is not confined to events in history books.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Photo of Thylacine with Distended Pouch; public domain
The Real Enemy

Poem by Maria Griffin

Nature is a noisy thing, and mammoths don’t walk lightly.

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